For years you’ve been saying you’re going to scan all the photos you have in shoeboxes in the basement. Now’s as good a time as any. There are a few smartphone apps that’ll help you with this so you don’t need to pay someone or drag out a scanner to do it, but Photomyne and Google’s recently released PhotoScan are…

In your default camera app, there’s probably a shortcut to your phone’s gallery app so you can quickly access the pictures you just took. If you’d rather use the awesome Google Photos app, there’s an easy way to add a shortcut to your camera.

Android: Your phone does the best it can to figure out which way a video should be rotated, but sometimes it messes up. A long time ago, Google’s photos app had the ability to manually rotate an image. Now, the feature is back.

Flat, two-dimensional photos are old news. The future is 360-degree photos that let you look around in any direction from a single standing position. You can share 360-degree photos everywhere from Facebook to Street View, and unlike 360 video, they can be easily snapped using the phone you’ve already got. Here’s how…

One of the best things about Google Photos is that it’s easy to find a photo by searching, but today the service made it even easier to find that specific shot you’re looking for. They’ve also added editing tools for Google’s auto-generated movies that let you use your own music and add photos to them, and more.

Google Photos has a ton of awesome ways to edit your pictures. However, when you make a change, the app makes you save a copy to preserve the original. Now, Photos can make changes and preserve the original without clogging up your albums.

Google is rolling out a sweet update today to Google Photos on the web, Android, and iOS. You’ll get suggested albums, curated with your best pictures, the ability to customize an album with maps, location pins, and text, and let others add photos to your albums.

Another year, another couple thousand new apps for you to wade through in a befuddled haze. Which ones should you download? Which ones should you actually pay for? And which ones deserve to take up prime real estate on your home screen? Whether you’ve spent the last 365 days asking yourself those very questions, or…

Google Photos is pretty killer for managing all your photos, but it sure would be nice if you could share entire albums, right? Now you can. Better yet, you can even choose to let other people submit their own pictures to a shared album.

Photos and videos tend to take up the bulk of our devices’ storage space. If you find you’re running out of space on your phone, Google Photos has a new feature that will let you bulk delete photos and videos that have already been stored online.

It’s never been easier to take as many photos as you like, but keeping them all organized and backed up has never been more difficult. The team at WNYC’s Note to Self, with a little help from yours truly, put together this flowchart to help you tackle your photo clutter once and for all.

Google+ Photos will begin shutting down on August 1, as users migrate to its replacement, Google Photos. It’s not a surprise—the move was announced earlier this year—but be sure to migrate your photos ahead of time for uninterrupted access. Read more on the Google+ page.

The Google+ notification system, which appears nearly everywhere that you’re logged into Google, is getting a major change. Now, you can get notifications for Google Photos or YouTube. You can even filter which ones you want to see.